St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-17
Honest and Earnest Efforts of SCandin-
avian Citizens to Educate Themselves
and Elevate Their Condition.
Seats OF Learning in Minnesota Wherein
the Young Scandinavian's Idea Is
Taught to Vigorously Shoot.
The Augsburg Seminary of Minneapolis
the Standard Academy of Those Of
Norwegian Persuasion.
And the College of GTs:atus Adolfus,
Where the Youthful SWedes Re-
Geive Solid Education.

Entirely commendable is the attention
paid by all Scandinavian elements of
our society to the educational training
of their youth. Besides universally
patroniZing the general public school
system of the state, they have several
national institutions of learning, two of
which are given as essentially character
iStic:
THE AUGSB URG SEMINARY.
This leading educational institution
of the Scandinavians i'll the new North
west is located at Twenty-first avenue
and Seventh street, Minneapolis. The
seminary is the outgrowth OF division
between the members of the Norwegian
AuguStana synod. which had founded Il
similar institution at Marshall, Wis.
The diSsenterS from the old AuguStana
synod formed themselves into q society
styled the Evangelical Lutheran Nor
wegian-Danish conference i'll 1870;
and at a meeting of the confer
ence in January of the following
year, at Madison. Wis. com
mittee was appointed to report upon a
location for a theological seminary. At
a conference held in Minneapolis later
in the same year the committee recon-
mended the selection of the present To-
cation as the most desirable point for
theological seminary for the Norwegian
Lutheran population of America. This
recommendation was adopted. and dOna
lions were made toward the building
fund of six lots of ground and about
$1,000 in cash. The erection Of the SEM
mary building was immediately begun,
and III September, 1872, the main p0r-
ton of the structure, a substantial three
story brick building, - by 10 feet, was
completed. In 1873 two wings were
added and improvements made which
represented a total of $4,000. About
this time additional lots were added to
the seminary grounds until they now
embrace seventeen lots: and-with the
the building used as a boarding house
for StudentS-the property is now valued
at between $4,000 and $4,000.
The president OF the seminary, who is
responsible for the educational conduct
of its affairs, is Prof. G.. SverCrup. The
board Of trustees, who are responsible
for the financial conduct of the inStitu-
ton, consists Of Messrs. Prof. S.Oftedal,
Il. Sunde and j. Aase, of Minneapolis;
O. Paulson. of Willmar, Mimi; 0.
Austead, of Eau Claire, Wis, and AL
bert Kittelson, of Ridgway, la. The
present faculty consists of Prof. G.
Sverdrup and Sven Oftedal, with four
assistant teachers. The greatest amount
of debt at any one time assumed by the
trustees was $4,000, in 1876. This was
subsequently wiped out, and an endow-
ment fund of about $4,000 now exists.
There are now about 125 students at
tending the classes of the seminary. The
first graduates, five III number. mem
bers of the class of 1S79 took leave of
their alma mater at the close of that col
lege year. The school begins Oct. and
closes on the 30th of May, divided into
two terms, the first closing in December
and the second with the close of the
school year.